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Safe Drinking Water for 80,000 Children in Bolivia

Summary

80,000 school children in Bolivia will be trained in simple, affordable techniques to sustainably improve their health. Techniques include hand washing and solar water purification (SODIS). progress reportread updates from the field


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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Every 15 seconds, a child dies from an easily avoidable case of diarrhea. Simple diarrhea is one of the biggest killers of kids under 5 in Bolivia. 100s of schools in Bolivia lack access to clean water, making them perfect places to teach and apply simple solutions to this problem. The SODIS Foundation believes that simple solutions like hand washing and improved access to safe water can empower people to improve their own health. These improvements can happen quickly and economically.

Activities

800 teachers will be trained on how to teach & put in practice solar water disinfection & hand washing. Training and support will be provided to the teachers. "Healthy corners," containing health information & handwashing stations, will be installed.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £15,335
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £0
Total Funding Goal: £15,271

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The project will provide safe drinking water for 80,000 children, leading to fewer cases of diarrhea. Less diarrhea means better school attendance, better physical and mental development, fewer medical expenses by the families and improved wellbeing.

Project Message

"Prior to the project, my daughter often had severe attacks of diarrhea. Now that we only drink SODIS water, the diarrhea has stopped. My daughter is healthier and stronger."
- Olga Fernandez, Beneficiary of a previous SODIS project in Bolivia

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Matthias Saladin,
Executive Co-Director
Pasaje E. Camacho 1112
Casilla 325
Cochabamba, Cochabamba Bolivia
Bolivia
59144487986
Email:

Project Sponsor

World Bank Development Marketplace

Organisation

Fundacion SODIS Logo Fundacion SODIS
Calle Cochabamba 45
Tiquipaya, Cochabamba 0000
Bolivia
++59144318082
http://www.fundacionsodis.org

Learn more about Fundacion SODIS and the project team.



Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Bolivia and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Bolivia, read the Human Development Report on Bolivia or the Wikipedia entry for Bolivia.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on December 28, 2011.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 20, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

December Update

By Matthias Saladin - Project Leader, December 28, 2011 04:27 PM

Children and teacher during a training session
Children and teacher during a training session

Dear Supporters,

As we announced earlier, we are now in the third phase of our project for schools in Bolivia. During this phase, the project will be implemented in 40 schools in Tiquipaya, a municipality close to the city of Cochabamba. Training of teachers started in October and continued until the middle of December. Currently, the schools are closed (for summer vacation!) in Bolivia, and classes will start again in early February with the next phase of the project.

Today, we want to tell you the story of the school named “Floresta Collpapampa”. It’s the first school in Tiquipaya where not only the teachers have been trained in methods to obtain safe drinking water, but also these methods are practiced on a daily basis. Floresta Callpapampa is a school in the Eastern part of the municipality where 250 children go to class of the primary level. The teachers were enthusiastic about the novel methodology which is being implemented by the SODIS Foundation, and the director of the school proudly accepted the challenge to be the first school of the project which can offer SAFE DRINKING WATER to its pupils and teachers. Thus, Christmas was an ideal opportunity to celebrate and to finish the year with many smiling faces.

From the SODIS Foundation, we also would like to announce more GOOD NEWS: User’s of mobile phones in the US can now donate to our project with a text message:

Text GIVE 1905 to 80088 to donate 10$ to our project. Messege and data rates may apply. Read full terms: www.mGive.org/t.

 

Wishing you all a happy Holiday Season and all the best for 2012,

With best regards from the whole project team,

Matthias Saladin

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